Charles S. Dutton Quotes

• You’re 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

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• What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson’s work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,… Otherwise it was impossible.

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• This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

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• The thing is, the studio then forget that you’re an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don’t want you to do anything else.

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• Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn’t have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

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• I’m trying my hand at writing. I’m writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

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• I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don’t want to be a commercial director.

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• I just don’t want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

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• I don’t even know if I can call myself a director.

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• I didn’t go to film school, I went to acting school.

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• For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you’re going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don’t love it it’s going to look like that on screen.

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• First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn’t a cartoon series there isn’t any cartoon series. I mean there’s no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

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• Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

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• And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn’t what this is.

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• Acting is the easiest money you’ll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

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Charles S. Dutton (15)

Birth:	30th January, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director

About

Charles Stanley Dutton is an American stage, film, and television actor. In his youth, Dutton dropped out of school before finishing middle school. He had a short-lived stint as an amateur boxer with the nickname "Roc." When he was 17, he got into a fight which resulted in the death of a man Dutton claimed had attacked him. Dutton was charged and convicted of manslaughter, and he spent the next seven years in prison. Several months after being released from prison, Dutton was arrested for possession of a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to three years in prison.

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